Let F be a Henselian valued field with char(F ) = p and D a semi-ramified, “not strongly degenerate” p-algebra. We show that all Galois subfields of D are inertial. Using this as a tool we study generic abelian crossed product p-algebras, proving among other things that the noncyclic generic abelian crossed product p-algebras defined by non-degenerate matrices are indecomposable p-algebras. To ...

The co-elementary hierarchy is a nested ordinal-indexed sequence of classes of mappings between compacta, with each successor level being defined inductively from the previous one using the topological ultracopower construction. The lowest level is the class of continuous surjections; and the next level up, the coexistential maps, is already a much more restricted class. Co-existential maps are...

The co-elementary hierarchy is a nested ordinalindexed sequence of classes of mappings between compacta, with each successor level being defined inductively from the previous one using the topological ultracopower construction. The lowest level is the class of continuous surjections; and the next level up, the co-existential maps, is already a much more restricted class. Co-existential maps are...

For a hereditarily unicoherent continuum X, its kernel means the common part of all subcontinua of X that intersect all arc components of X. This concept naturally appears when absolute retracts for the class of hereditarily unicoherent continua are studied. Let Y be such an absolute retract. Among other results, we prove that (a) Y is indecomposable if and only if it is identical with its kern...